Dr. Elsie Widdowson was an early pioneer in nutritional science, and helped the British government study the effects of rationing during World War II.

Dr. Hilde Mangold’s biology thesis dissertation in 1923 was so groundbreaking that it was the foundation of her mentor’s Nobel Prize winning work.

Marguerite Perey discovered the element Francium and was the first woman elected to the French Academy of Sciences.

According to Dr. Chieko Asakawa, history has shown that accessibility ignites innovation and can make the world better for all of us.  She is working on cognitive assistance programs that can improve the lives of almost everyone in some way.

Today for #BossDay we’re celebrating the first African-American manager at NASA, pioneering mathematician and human computer Dorothy Vaughan.

Dr. Pamela Rasmussen is an ornithologist currently tied for the third-highest total of new bird discoveries in the world.

As a teen Sofia Kovalevskaya stole a physics textbook authored by a neighbor that had been given as a gift to her father and when the author came by to discuss the book with him Sofia insisted on asking taking part in the discussion as well – impressing this professor to the point he became an advocate for her further education.

Educated as a chemist and a bacterial geneticist Dr. Mina Bissell has been tackling the biology of cancer from a new perspective and making strides in our knowledge of not only how the disease develops but how it might be treated.

The first American woman to walk in space, Kathryn Sullivan is now the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans & Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator.

Limor “Ladyada” Fried describes her company Adafruit Industries as a tutorial with a gift shop – where people can get inspired to build something and then can learn the skills they need to build their project.